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lz4decompress

lz4decompress decompresses a string that was encoded using the LZ4 compression algorithm back to regular data.

function lz4decompress(data: string): string

Parameters

Parameter Description
data The string to decompress.

Example

Decompressing an LZ4 encoded string back to regular data
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local text = "Hello, world! Hello, world!"
local compressed = lz4compress(text)
print(lz4decompress(compressed, #text)) -- "Hello, world! Hello, world!"